Friedrich von Schlegel and Philosophical History

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Friedrich von Schlegel and Philosophical History

Sunday 10 March 2024 is the 252nd anniversary of the birth of Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel (10 March 1772 – 12 January 1829), who was born in Hanover on this date in 1772.

Schlegel knew all of the movers and shakers in the romantic movement, and his life was like the entire romantic movement in miniature. He was born into a Protestant family, became a freethinker in college, wrote a novel that was considered scandalous about his affair with an older woman whom he eventually married, and, after he married, he converted to Catholicism. In his young days as a romantic he said that, “The historian is a prophet facing backward,” and, while he eventually distanced himself from his early romanticism, his later work in philosophy of history embodied the spirit of this youthful aphorism.

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